Whispering Voices: Ripping Your Face Off

Monday was my final full day in New York, and my final show here. I said earlier in the week that I was a teenage Bon Jovi obsessive, and this was indeed the case - my bedroom walls were covered with posters of the band between the years of 1995 and 1999. Since hearing that keyboardist David Bryan has turned his attentions to musical theatre, I've been fascinated to imagine what his score for The Toxic Avenger might sound like.

And I was so happy to discover that it is brilliant. The Toxic Avenger, on stage one at the New World Stages, is definitely my favourite show I've seen over here, and certainly one of my favourites I've seen in the past few months. The music, as you may expect, has a rock influence, but there are nice glints of tango, cha-cha and bubblegum pop emerging throughout it. It's fun, acerbic, cutting and sassy, and it's something I can definitely see transferring to London, not necessarily on a huge stage, but on a smaller scale; this is the kind of ironic humour that cult West End hits are made from. Fingers crossed.